Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman raised eyebrows with his choppy and sometimes borderline incoherent questioning at the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Fetterman was the last senator to dive into questioning during a hearing on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse that occurred earlier this year, and he appeared to struggle through his opening statement in the hearing.
The Pennsylvania Democrat noted that some of the witnesses’ colleagues “went to go to Hawaiis (sic) after there was a crash of your bank” and that he “couldn’t believe it.”
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“Really? Because every bank you seemingly that crashed, it’s like, ‘We can bail him out. This one crashed, we’ll bail them out,’” Fetterman said. “So far, everything’s been true. So, doesn’t it feel that now if a bank really believed that they wouldn’t be bailed out, now after bailing them out, these couple of bailouts, they are going to.”
“Do you believe that that is not outrageous that, no matter how deplorable your performance is, you are made as whole and all by … taxpapers (sic),” the Pennsylvania senator continued. “So what do yous (sic) believe?”
Fetterman then asked what would’ve happened if Silicon Valley Bank had not been bailed out before moving on to say, “Is it staggering? Is it a staggering … it’s a responsibility that the head of a bank could literally, could literally crash our economy.”
Users online reacted to Fetterman’s choppy questioning during the Senate Banking Committee hearing on one of the largest bank failures in American history.
Joe Calvello, Fetterman’s spokesperson, told Fox News Digital, “We have been clear for literally months and months that John continues to have auditory processing issues due to the effects of his stroke.”
“If sickos on the internet want to keep making fun of John for recovering from a health challenge, that’s between them and their consciences,” Calvello said.
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Calvello told Fox News Digital that it’s “a sad but true fact of life that some people seem to get their jollies attacking John for the auditory processing issues resulting from his stroke, but they’re just shouting into the wind.”
“Republicans already tried emptying the arsenal attacking John’s health, and Pennsylvanians had his back in a big way,” Calvello said. “As a senator, John is fighting for forgotten communities and all of the people of Pennsylvania, regardless of their social media habits.”
